About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Must be eligible to work in the UK.
- Extensive senior SAP technical leadership experience, ideally as an SAP Technical Director, SAP Transformation Director, SAP Technical Programme Director or equivalent.
- Proven track record leading complex, enterprise-scale SAP transformation and cloud migration programmes.
- Strong technical understanding of SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, BW/4HANA, SAP Private Cloud and SAP Basis.
- Experience defining and governing enterprise SAP technical architecture across infrastructure, cloud platforms, security, integrations, data management, automation, development and operational support.
- Experience delivering technical migrations from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA is highly advantageous, including technical architecture, infrastructure, integrations and platform readiness.
- Experience managing SAP technical teams, strategic technology partners, third-party suppliers, programme budgets and technical governance.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including experience operating at CIO and executive level.
- Manufacturing, supply chain or similarly complex enterprise experience is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Lead Phase 0 technical planning and migration of SAP ECC and BW/4HANA to SAP Private Cloud, including technical remediation, archiving and legacy platform decommissioning.
- Define and own the SAP technical roadmap, establishing the foundations for the subsequent migration from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
- Define and govern end-to-end SAP technical architecture, ensuring alignment across infrastructure, cloud platforms, security, integrations, data management, automation, development and operational support.
- Provide technical leadership across SAP Basis, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, security, integrations, DevOps and automation.
- Lead multidisciplinary technical teams and coordinate delivery across enterprise architecture, platform services and SAP application management.
- Manage relationships with SAP and strategic technology partners, ensuring delivery performance, commercial accountability and value.
- Establish technical governance and architecture review processes, and manage programme risks and dependencies.
- Oversee SAP Private Cloud operational readiness, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance and support arrangements.
- Manage technical budgets, resources and supplier expenditure, working with the CIO and senior stakeholders to support the wider transformation roadmap.
Technologies
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP
- Security
- Architect
- ERP
- SAP BW/4HANA
More
We are recruiting a contract SAP Technical Director for a leading organisation undertaking a major, multi-year SAP transformation programme. Reporting directly to the CIO, this high-profile leadership role will lead the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of a significant SAP Cloud migration and shape the foundations for a longer-term SAP S/4HANA programme. The contract is expected to last 6–12 months, with a day rate of £900–£1,000. The role is based in North London or Hertfordshire with hybrid working.
last updated 46 week of 2026